Next month, Academy Award-winning film director Kathryn Bigelow will release Detroit, a recounting of the city’s devastating 1967 race riot, the most destructive period of civil unrest in American history. The riot marks its 50th anniversary this week. Lasting for a total of five days (July 23 through July 27), the riot literally tore the once gleaming Midwest metropolis, apart at the seams resulting in 43 deaths, over 7,000 arrests, the burning, looting and destruction of more than 2,000 buildings and pieces of property with a damage bill ranging in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Detroit opens on August 4. Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) directs a cast highlighted by John Boyega (Star Wars franchise), Will Poulter (The Revenant, We’re The Millers), Anthony Mackie (8 Mile, The Hurt Locker, Captain America franchise) and John Krasinski (TV’s The Office). The film focuses on the notoriously-tragic July 26, 1967 Algiers Motel Murders.

Using The Detroit Free Press newspaper Twitter feed and its brilliantly-crafted #Detroit67 thread as a guide, below is a timeline of the first day of the infamous uprising in the Motor City.

Detroit 1967 Race Riot Timeline – Day 2: July 24, 1967

12:00 a.m. – Governor George Romney declares a state of emergency

12:05 a.m. – The riot experiences its first reported fatality, 45-year old looter Walter Grzanka is shot to death by a store owner

1:15 a.m. – Sharon George, a 23-year old pregnant mother of two is murdered, is shot to death as she drove up Woodward Avenue

2:15 a.m. – Governor Romney calls U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and tells him federal assistance is needed in reestablishing order in the city of Detroit

2:45 a.m. – National Guardsmen shoot 23-year old Clifton Pryor to death amid conflicting reports whethe he was a sniper or an unarmed civilian

3:00 a.m. – U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark tells Romney he must officially declare Detroit under “insurrection” before the U.S. Armed Forces can be called in to assist

3:01 a.m. – Governor Romney holds televised news conference

3:30 a.m. – Detroit firefighter John Ashby is electrocuted by a hanging high-voltage wire while fighting a blaze

4:30 a.m. – Looting, arson and sniper fire is reported on Jefferson Avenue near St. Jean in the DPD’s 5th Precinct

8:00 a.m. – Fred Williams, 49, is electrocuted to death outside his burning home by touching a downed power line

9:45 a.m. – U.S. Military vet Herman Ector, 30, is shot to death by security guard after getting into argument over security guard’s behavior towards looters

10:47 a.m. – Governor Romney reaches out to President Lyndon B. Johnson via telegram and requests help from the U.S. Armed Forces, writing “Time could be of the essence”